Lea Ypi, Professor in Political Theory, discusses the promise of freedom under capitalism and some of the contradictions it involves.
Thursday, 26. October 2023, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Auditorium)
In this lecture, Lea Ypi discusses the promise of freedom under capitalism and some of the contradictions it involves. She argues that we need to return to the core definition of the Enlightenment as the “emergence from people’s self-incurred immaturity” and develop a new critique of society, able to challenge the political and economic institutions of the present and to develop a radical democratic global alternative.
Admission is free. No pre-registration necessary. No seat reservation possible.
This event will be live-streamed and provided for replay.
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza. She is the author of “Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency”, “The Meaning of Partisanship” (with Jonathan White), and “The Architectonic of Reason”, all published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book, Free, published by Penguin Press and translated into more than twenty-five languages, has won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Her academic work has been recognized with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and a Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement.